Where to Find Hideo Kojima in Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 is filled with easter eggs, and one of them takes us to a corporate bar where Hideo Kojima himself sits.
In one of the Cyberpunk 2077 corporate bars, you can find the legendary Japanese game developer Hideo Kojima, known to us from the series of games Metal Gear и Death Stranding. The game tries to pretend that this is supposedly a different character, but his appearance is clearly copied from a Japanese genius, and his manner of speaking is copied from the original.
A character named Oshima listens to movie ideas and answers in Japanese, but V's implants translate his speech as they go. Oshima talks about genre tropes and reveals that he has a research team in Tokyo trying to figure out how best to convey the full range of human emotions:
“I want my creations to have real, pure emotion. For example, when you combine happiness with melancholy or calmness with a hidden sense of anxiety,” Oshima slides in. If you watch his monologue to victory, then Oshima starts asking you, "Are you familiar with my work?" or “Do you want to ping me something?” —
After these words, he stops paying attention to you.
One of the meanings of oshima in Japanese is "big island", while kojima means "small island". Obviously not a coincidence - perhaps even the voice of the character was recorded by Kojima himself!
Easter egg with Kojima comes across after about a few hours of the main plot in the task The Heist (“Robbery”). During the mission, you will find yourself in a corporate bar - there you should look around to see a scene with Kojima.